Vocabulary Word
Word: despondent
Definition: without hope and courage; depressed; gloomy; N. despondency: loss of hope with gloom; dejection
Definition: without hope and courage; depressed; gloomy; N. despondency: loss of hope with gloom; dejection
Sentences Containing 'despondent'
The Marquis took a gentle little pinch of snuff, and shook his head; as elegantly despondent as he could becomingly be of a country still containing himself, that great means of regeneration.
'It's very strange,' said Mr. Dick, with a despondent look upon his papers, and with his hand among his hair again, 'that I never can get that quite right.
The proper place today, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less despondent spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles.
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